I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  • -- Steven Pinker 史蒂文·平克

我认为这种困惑使知识分子和艺术家们自己相信,精英艺术和人文是人类努力的一种更高、更崇高的形式。

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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

在西方,有时会有一种特殊的困惑,把进步等同于最近的或新的东西,现在是时候让我们明白,进步与思想的年代无关。

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

艺术家可以把天空涂成红色,因为他们知道它是蓝色的。我们这些不是艺术家的人必须按照事物的本来面目来着色,否则人们会认为我们很愚蠢。

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

家庭传统反对疏远和混乱。它们帮助我们定义我们是谁;在这个混乱的世界里,它们提供了稳定、可靠和安全的东西。

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

比赛是给马的,不是给艺术家的。